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Bananas can save your eyesight

Bananas hold many benefits as they are rich in potassium, which ensures good cardiovascular health. But according to a new study, bananas can also save your eyesight.

Yes, according to this study bananas can prevent you going blind. This fruit contains high levels of carotenoids which is an organic pigment which is turned into vitamin A in the human liver which has the tendency to protect against sight disease.

Eye expert Dr David Allamby says the study, published in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, could help combat vitamin A deficiency across the globe.

Findings of the study suggest that Bananas due to containing Vitamin A have the tendency to fight against debilitating disease and blindness.

Thanks to this study, a cheaper and easily available source of Vitamin A has been found the deficiency of which is very common in developing nations. Furthermore, young generation faces this deficiency more than the older one.

Because older generations tend to eat more eggs, milk and liver which are naturally rich in vitamin A, whereas the health-conscious youngsters on low-fat diets are relying heavily on the beta-carotene form of the nutrient.

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